Bio

Detailed CV (pdf) (available soon)

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Academic Background

2003-2007 - Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences at Université du Québec à Montréal

Thesis Title: Characterization of the regional climate model’s internal variability

Director: Daniel Caya, Co-Director: René Laprise

2000-2002 - M.Sc. in Atmospheric Sciences at Université du Québec à Montréal

Thesis Title: Implementation of a River Routing Scheme in the Canadian Regional Climate Model

Director: Daniel Caya, Co-Director: René Laprise, Co-Director: Vivek Arora

1997-2000 - B.Sc. in Physics at Université du Québec à Montréal

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Professional Experiences

Dec 2021 - today - Professor at Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

May 2019 - Nov 2021 - Climate scientist at Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques at Météo France

Topic: Principal investigator of the project km-impacts on the evaluation of climate change impacts at the kilometer scale over Europe funded by the Make Our Planet Great Again French program

Feb 2018 - May 2019 - Research associate at Centre DRAME (Développement et Recherche Appliquée en Modélisation de l'Eau) at Département de génie de la construction à l’École de Technologie Supérieure

Topic: Evaluation of the impacts of climate change on the recurrence of floods of the Richelieu River and Lake Champlain for a project of the International Joint Commission

Oct 2016 - Nov 2017 - Specialist in physical sciences at Environment and Climate Change Canada

May 2014 - June 2017 - Research associate at Centre DRAME (Développement et Recherche Appliquée en Modélisation de l'Eau) at Département de génie de la construction à l’École de Technologie Supérieure

Topic: Expert in climate modeling and supervisor of graduate students

Jan 2013 - Oct 2016 - Research associate at the Centre ESCER at the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic: Coupled atmosphere-ocean regional climate modelling focusing on the coastal regions of Canada in the project Marine Environmental Observation Prediction and Response Network (MEOPAR)

2012 - Postdoctoral position at the Rossby Centre at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

Topic: Snow validation of regional climate model simulations with RCA over the Arctic. (Project ADSIMNOR)

2011 - Visiting scientist at the Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques (CNRM) at Meteo-France

Topic: Evaluation of the regional climate model ALADIN to simulate the climate over North America in the CORDEX framework

2008-2010 - Postdoctoral position at the Danish Climate Centre at the Danish Meteorological Institute

Topic: Produce and analyze regional climate model simulations with the Danish regional climate model HIRHAM for the FP6 project WATCH and FP7 project ice2sea

2002-2003 - Research Assistant at the Canadian Regional Climate Group at the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic: Introduction to the Canadian regional climate model's internal variability

Summer 2000 - Research Assistant at the Canadian Regional Climate Group at the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Université du Québec à Montréal

Summer internship: Technical assistance for the group working on the Canadian regional climate model

Summer 1999 - Research Assistant at the Department of Physics at Université du Québec à Montréal

Summer internship: Introduction to the standard model